Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

A mitrailleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which viii fire 1000 bullets in
| ninety seconds.
| -Four new postoffices have just been es-
tabllshed with the euphoniOus rames Of Piggs,
Dumps, Pulse and Malaria
The otter's value is fully recognized
by the Chinese, who train them to fish, and a
we'll trained otter is worth $40
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed
the joint resOlu Ion submitting a woman suf
frage amendment to the constitution.
St. Louis has subscribed $4,000 for
thd entertainment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at the annual reunion in that city
next fall.
Stephen A. Dorsey s recent trip to Lon
| don and the continent is said to have been
rendered practically useless by the act which
passed Congress at its late session, limiting
the capacity of aliens to hold lands IN the
United States.
An international home and home hand
| ball matc1 for $1,000 and the champi nship Of
the world Is to be arranged between eX Alder
man Philip Casey of Brooklyn, champion of
America, and John Lawler of Dublin, champion
| of Ireland.
The English House of Commons recent
! ly spent more than half a day discussing an
item involving SO a disguised member Of
fered to pay the GlO himself if his doing so
would .eXaedite matters, but his proposition
was looked upon as revolutionary.
! An eighteen-year-o young man of
Richie county, Ind, fell Ill with measles His
grandmother. anxious to effect a speedy cure
and bring them out" placed him between two
ticks of feathers, with hOt stones aths feet and
live sheep alongside of him. He died.
Ten per cent. of the counties in Dakota
now have ladies as county superintendent of
schools, and they average better than the men
In point of ability am application to tneir
duties. 1t is believed that this position
will no ZYagl lyy cd IN la6i In
Dakota.
In 1928, when the Boston Gas Light
Con panY organized, they charged S. per 1000
feet for ga. In 1868 the price was So % In
1871 1t was reduced to So. In 1879 20 81; in 1881
to Sl.50; and the other day it was again
reduced to $l.40, to enable the company to
hold its own against the electric light
Professor James Law is in Chicago. He
is professor of veterinary medicine at Cornell
University, and is also connected with the
Bureau of Animal Industry. His mission in
the west Is to engage in crusade against
pleurO pneumonia, and to take active steps to-
ward stamping Out that disease in Illinois and
adjoining states. He will probably remain for
month or more.
remarkable case of longevity re-
Gently ended in the death at Avon, Conn, of
two sisters, Mrs. Chester WOodford, ninety six.
VINO died March %, Mrs. George B. Woodford
ninety two, who died Sunday, and Mrs. Tru-
man WoodfOrd, nineGy-fOur, sister in-law of
Mrs G, B. Woodford, who died in Hartford on
the LIST. All three were born within a mile of
each other and died within week.
On the 18th inst, at Troy, N. Y, 8
gang of unknown men, said to be knights of
Labor, raideO the Cffice of the Owl, an obscure
weekly publication. The proprietor, John
Parr, was not on the premises at the time and
the only person found by the alleged Knights
of Labor was Foreman Carter. He says that
the men, who wore masks, after asking him
one or two questions, Deat him over the head
with clubs until he became unconscious. When
he recovered consciousness he found the type
all pied, the cases dumped, the imposing stor es
broken and General chaos Recently the Owl
has been noted for the virulence of Its attacks
on the Knights of Labor, and Foreman Garter
claims that he recognized several of the attack
ing party as members of the order.
They have been looking into the record
of deeds and mortgages at Chicago and run
across something that startles them. The
paragra IN question, says the Inter Ocean,
''sels forth that during the year IS the United
States, then hOldi & the Fort Dearborn restrva
ton, gave to the city of Chicago strip of land
over twenty feet IN width on the south side of
the Chicago river, and running from the light
house then in use west to point shown on
map in the office of the Illinois Central Rail-
road. 1t is claimed that this point was State
street. Whether the map IN the office of the
Illinois Central exists or not is question to be
determined, A number of old citizens how
ever, 1t is claimed, can be called upon to pr, We
that the strip in question was used by the
public, and was called Harb0r street, The city
officials claim that this property was never
vacated by the city, and that there are no
reco DIS in existence to show a surrender on
the part of the city of this most valuable strip
or dock front ge to the parties nov occupy
Ing 1T. If the statement Is true, as shown by the
records, City Clerk PIautZs office has enriched
the city of Chicago to the extent of several
million collars. At the same tin e, millions of
dollars worth of property Is lost to those who,
under this stale of facts, are in adverse posses
sion of this strip"